The Diabetes HOPE Project: Creating a Resource for Children Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes & Their Parent’s

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Maria Mercer and Professor Robert Barrett, Illustration Faculty Of the 25.8 million children and adults with diabetes in America, only about 5% of those are diagnosed as Type 1.1 Type 1 diabetes is a lifelong disease managed, but not cured, through insulin therapy via injections or an insulin pump. Diagnosed mainly in children and adolescents […]

Advertising Ethical Products: Measuring the Effect of Efficacy and Consumer Benefits in Ethical Advertisements

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David Matthew Godfrey and Dr. John Davies, Department of Communications Summary As more and more brands attempt to position themselves as socially responsible, this research attempted to discover the impact of “ethical” advertising messages on sales. The world needs solutions to complex social problems and corporations can contribute, but can “ethical” branding increase profit by […]

Practice Makes Perfect: A Comparative Study between French and American Harp Pedagogical Techniques

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Angela Barlow and Dr. Steven Ricks, Associate Professor, BYU School of Music I will never forget hearing the first few notes of Symphonie Fantastique played by the Orchestre de Paris during my music study abroad stay in Paris. However, it isn’t just the first few notes of the Symphonie that I will always remember, it […]

Encapsulating Liposomes for Stabilized Drug Delivery

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Corbin Jacobs and Dr. William Pitt, Chemical Engineering Liposomes are tiny vesicles composed of materials similar to a cell membrane’s bilayer and “are useful for delivering anticancer agents to tumors and reducing the severe side effects of the agents.”1 Following synthesis, liposomes containing drug are administered intravenously. Fortunately, tumors have hyperpermeable vasculature which facilitates liposomal […]

Quantitative Assessment of Supraorbital Osseous Bar Stability and Symmetry after Frontal Orbital Advancement for Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis

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Aaron Hart, Chia-Chi Teng and Drs. Richard Hopper, David Khechoyan, and Jennifer Brown Abstract— Frontal-orbital advancement is the accepted surgical treatment for correcting the cranial deformity associated with premature fusion of one of the coronal cranial sutures. Removal and reshaping of the brow and lower forehead bone is performed to correct ipsilateral frontal flattening and […]

ORCA Final Report

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Michael Christensen BYU’s Fulton Supercomputing Lab (FSL) is a centralized campus resource whose mission is “to facilitate and enhance computationally-intensive research at BYU by providing reliable, state-of-the-art, high performance computing resources to faculty and students.” As part of that mission, Supercomputing provides large compute clusters and other systems for researchers to use as needed. If […]

A2 Protein Incorporation into the Qβ Virus-like Particle

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Derek Bush and Dr. Brad Bundy, Chemical Engineering Virus-like Particles (VLPs) are noninfectious synthetic copies of the outer protein shell of viruses. They are highly symmetrical nanostructures that self-assemble from approximately 200 copies of a single “coat” protein. This symmetry makes attachment of singular foreign entities to the VLPs difficult, which limits their current uses […]

The Development of Prosodic Structures in the Speech of Young Children Establishing a Control Group

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Darrell Matthews and Dr. Shawn Nissen, Communication Disorders Acoustically, the speech characteristics of male and female speakers differ from one another. In adults, this variation is clearly caused by physiological differences between males and females. The size and shape of the vocal tract, as well as the length of the vocal folds have an impact […]

Melioration and the Behavioral Addiction Process

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Joshua Kirton and Dr. Timothy Smith, Dept. CPSE This project was undertaken to evaluate how melioration explain behavior addiction more robustly than more conventional models such as maximization. Suboptimal behavior, including addiction, can be conceptualized as the consequence of a decision strategy called melioration that is utilized in choice situations in which the value of […]